Lying there wide-awake as the doctor removed the colonoscopy tube from my hinder, I recalled that time in the 1980s when I had four impacted wisdom teeth gouged from my jaw while under nothing but a ...

A new study published in Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics indicates nitrous oxide gas provides a comparable analgesia to IV sedation for patients undergoing colonoscopy. The study examined 623 ...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is putting the brakes on a controversial policy to restrict the use of anesthesia during colonoscopies. The policy took effect Jan. 1, drawing outrage from ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As GI physicians, we know that colonoscopy saves lives – it is the only test that screens, detects and prevents ...

PHILADELPHIA — Capnographic monitoring to detect early changes in breathing during routine colonoscopy does not capture more episodes of hypoxemia in moderately sedated healthy adults, the first ...

June 1, 2009 (Chicago, Illinois) — Deep sedation allows for better visualization of the colon and inspection of polyps during colonoscopy and has a significantly higher diagnostic yield than moderate ...

Colon cancer is common and it's preventable. Early detection saves lives. Have you been putting your colonoscopy off?